Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> This 2gb limit is kinda scary when you consider that we have already seen
> at least one POV image that uses more than half of that ... for users of
> consumer Microsoft OS's, once scenes start hitting 2gb, no amount of RAM
> will help the problem (POV will just fail with a memory allocation error).
> 

As long as Dell&Co continue selling Pentium 4 PC's with 128 Mb RAM there
is no danger. ;-)

I think you are quite right, even presuming that you can use full 4 Gb on
other OS's the limit will come at least within about the next two years.  

Let's hope that at that time there are cheap 64bit systems available.

And BTW:
No application will ever need more than 16 Million TeraByte of RAM

(Anyone who wants to know how much you would pay for that?)

Christoph

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